Your Favourite Front Runners Past or Present

persian punch, loved the horse

Oiii: where have ye been?

Your stable mate was a free going nutter, so i'll have him...

Ref Point.

Historic, hurdler trained by Tom George.

Grey Abbey

I must be clairvoyant after watching Foundation

Dessie (NAP)

Hi G2D, not been well mate. Hope you and Muttley are both well.

I just seen The Martian and going into relapse!

Which stable mate? There were quite a few front running nutters in the yard!

Larbawn (NH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBajcIogNc8


Sorry to hear that mucker, hope ye is revovering well..

I gave my thoughts on 'The Martian' in the other place..

Hopscotch

Desert Orchid
Lochsong
Make A stand

Twoboy, i remember Hopscotch getting beat at something like 1/10 on New Years Day about 25 years ago

Talking of 'Tim nice but dim' IS, did ye back Sir Noel in the last?

tingle creek.

Snap Fidway

Hardy Eustace deserves a mention.

Driver was superb G2D and thanks for link. Magnificent performance.

Very nearly g2d, chose fox appeal instead

Cataldi was used to do pacemaking for Rousillon and Raft, yet won a Lincoln making all at 10/1

happy days

Grey Sombrero

Very sad ending for Grey Sombrero.

Tied Cottage.

Lead until falling at the last in 1979.
Lead the Gold Cup field a merry dance winning in 1980.
Lead until the second last fence in 1982 ......at the age of 14.

Crisp usually gets a mention in these threads ...

timeless - he didn't find it easy to lead Grey Sombrero

Bullet Train

that's way before my time blackbarn,

only know Crisp from the one run

Harchibald.

No seriously it has to be Desert Orchid surely? A mention to Double Trigger too though......

Andy Pandy
Out And About

Double Trigger.
Lochsong.
Morceli.
Coneygree.

Mill House

Sica Dan

Brantridge Farmer
Lough Derg
Both rather amazingly won the National Spirit Hurdle twice at Fontwell.

soba

soba

One of my great memories of the game was the year Hot Weld made all in the Scots National, an exhibition of jumping.

Talking of Scotish Nationals reminds me of the real gutsy and great jumper Hello Bud who led all the way and also won 2 Bechers chases ar Aintree as a 12 and 14 yo! Terrificly game horse.

Astral Charmer
Tom Sharp
Tom Byers
Filbert Bayi

Tingle Creek and Grey Sombrero (already mentioned on this thread)
Frankel in the 2000
Attivo

Annaglogs Daughter 2m chaser traine by Ted Durkan

Skyrne  chaser trained by Tom Dreaper

flat - slip anchor in the 85 derby under the majestic cauthen

jumps - make a stand won a claimer before pipe somehow turned him into a champion hurdler

honorable mention to im a driver was a front runner
used to plough through fences like they wernt there

trained of course by the mighty michael dickinson what a shame he got into cahoots with sangster

Get Real - 2m chaser trained by henderson
had to be a few lengths up jumping the last as he always slowed down on the run in

Collingwood - Such a bold Hennessy effort
Night Nurse - Everything that is good about the sport
Annas Prince - Headstrong MH Easterby 2 mile chaser
Slieve Felim - Headstrong looney - killed in action at Ascot

Must be a NeC thing north east - loved that horse as well as the OP's namesake from same yard - Frankel in the guineas was sensational AND practically everything that ran under the Martin Pipe banner in late 70's- early 80's with so many running up large sequences with races won after barely two hurdles.

Two others stick in the memory though not sure if they were true front runners - Carigeen Hill and a Gordon Richards novice chaser that im sure won its first ten races and was sadly killed before it reached his prime - name escapes at moment but will come back to me

Danish Rhapsody, trained by Lady Herries. A good friend of mine was involved with the horse and we had a right good punt at Folkestone where he won before making all next time out at Goodwood where we won stupid amounts of money. An unbelievably game little horse who won several times at the Sussex track.

The one-eyed Belper at Brighton.

Given Brighton's reputation, that sounds like a bit of a euphemism.

I second hello bud

Uncle Bing

Make A Stand deserves a mention.

Noddy's Ryde for shearer

Oh, and keep up..

Millwall66

Was at Epsom one day and was going to back Belper my bet was going to be £600/100 something like that went and had a look at the horses in the paddock and said to myself I am not going to back a horse with one eye

You know what happened agggggggggggggggggggggggg

that was the one g2d

Edredon Bleu.?

Glad to see my namesake got a mention, if only there were 4 furlong races!
Next big one will be  UN du sceux

St Athans Lad.....Derrick Morris firing him around Fontwell.

Not picking on Mrcombustible but Anaglogs Daughter wasn't trained by Ted Durkan.

He was nominally trained by Bill Durkan but actually trained by Ferdy Murphy.

Also thought Skryne was trained by Waring Willis.

Limestone Lad
Muir
Attivo
Ben Stack.

Dessie

Sorry Wildman I meant to say Bill Durkan rather than Ted. Yes Bill held the licence and Ferdy did the work.

Regarding Skryne from memory he was owned by Waring Willis and I think he was trained by Dreaper and Willis at various stages, I could be wrong.Maybe I am mixing him up with another horse as Dreaper had a lot of front runners.

I see Out and About has been mentioned. My early memories of the GN always have him a fence clear.
Actually Arkle was often a front runner. People's memories/knowledge of him tend to come from the 64 GC when he was held up but after that he was inclined to go off in front ( not against Dunkirk of course ).

dawn run.

Deano's Beeno

Double Trigger

Young Spartacus
Venture to Cognac
Fabulous
Monkerhostin
Rock On Ruby

Always hard to narrow these things down.

Hypnosis

Mr Point

Dayjur deserves a mention

Just noticed it's for front runners

Tied Cottage, or Delmoss for me.

Tom Sharp

who remembers that Ces

Traite de Paix

and one for the 4F race - Moor Lane

Ya Malak and Repertory for 3 furlongs,

and that American quarter horse for 2 furlongs

Overturn for me, loved his Chester Cup win in 2011

Ballyregan Bob also deserves a mention !

Tudor Crown ? a winning pacemaker at Goodwood. Coed Cochion was in the race.

Mysilv always took some catching and she nearly won the Stayers two days after a tough Champion Hurdle run

4 furlong hoss (actually on over a mile once) Spring Cabbage

Dublin Flyer too